The world’s thy ship and not thy home.
THERESE OF LISIEUXJesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
More Therese of Lisieux Quotes
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It is love alone that counts.
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Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
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It isn’t enough to love; we must prove it.
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I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
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You know well that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, as at the love with which we do them.
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As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.
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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.
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Whose hands are God’s hands, but our hands?
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Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace.
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If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
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For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
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Silence does good to the soul.
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Our Lord needs from us neither great deeds nor profound thoughts. Neither intelligence nor talents. He cherishes simplicity.
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Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.
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Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
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Jesus, help me to simplify my life by learning what you want me to be and becoming that person.
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Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing else.
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I am very far from practicing what I understand.
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Life is only a dream: soon, we shall awaken. And what joy! The greater our sufferings, the more limitless our glory. Oh! do not let us waste the trial Jesus sends.
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Love is the Cross, and the Cross is Love.
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He has created the poor savage with no guide but natural law, and it is to their hearts that He deigns to stoop. They are His wild flowers whose homeliness delights Him.
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The greatest honor God can do a soul is not give it much; but to ask much of it.
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No harm can come to me since, in whatever happens, I see only the tender hand of Jesus.
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Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.
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How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God’s mercy.
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The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.
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